The Implication of Smartphone Usage, General Self-Efficacy, Self-Regulation, and Cyberloafing to Smartphone Addiction

Sharing information becomes easier as the smartphone advances. But the intense use of a smartphone or in this paper is regard to smartphone addiction and cyberloafing is considered negative consequences in progress itself. Specifically, personal characteristics are involved in the use of individual smartphones, decisions for cyberloaf, and finally the possibility of becoming a smartphone addict. While there are studies in which factors affecting cyberloafing behaviors have been studied, research about the relation of cyberloafing to smartphone addiction is limited. Furthermore, in addition how certain personal traits, self-regulation affect smartphone addiction is not well enough known. There is also a limited research regarding the connections between the self- efficacy and cyberloafing. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify relationships between smartphone use, self-regulation, general self-efficacy, and cyberloafing on smartphone addiction. Primary data was collected through questionnaire distribution and filled by 270 respondents who were active students at private universities. Data were analyzed by applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test hypotheses. In the test results there are a number of findings of this study, namely; there is a positive influence on smartphone use against smartphone addiction; self-regulation and smartphone addiction. Conversely, there are several hypotheses in this study that are not supported because the critical value and not the significance of the p-value are self-regulation of cyberloafing; general self-efficacy for cyberloafing; cyberloafing for smartphone addiction. Discussions, limitations and recommendations for future research are provided.